Movie Monday: ‘Spider-Man’ Crawls Back to No. 1

It’s Spider-Man’s multiverse. We’re just living in it.

For the second time in four weeks, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse won the weekend’s box-office crown—this time spinning past two old rivals and one raunchy newcomer.

Across the Spider-Verse earned an estimated $19.3 million across North America, bringing its total domestic tally to $317.1 million. Factor in another $243.2 million from overseas, and Marvel’s favorite web-slinger has snared $560.3 million thus far.

It’s pretty rare that a film slips out of the top spot for two weeks and then climbs back to No. 1. Movie audiences tend to be fairly fickle, after all. But strong reviews for Across the Spider-Verse, paired with some relatively weak contenders, are giving this Spider-story some extra … legs.

Pixar’s Elemental held strong and held on to second place this weekend, earning another $18.5 million. While the film isn’t exactly on fire, it’s far from all wet. Elemental has now collected $65.5 million in North America and looks to be a box-office player for weeks to come.

Not sure if we can say the same for The Flash. Despite Across the Spider-Verse’s win, the real story this weekend was the DC superhero’s losses. The Flash shed a staggering 72 percent of its weekend-over-weekend audience, earning a relatively paltry $15.3 million. For a quiet little indie movie, that’d be great! For a summer superhero tentpole, it’s abysmal. The Flash has now earned $87.6 million stateside—not even close to covering the movie’s estimated $200 million production costs (to say nothing of its marketing and miscellaneous expenditures). But perhaps it’s fitting. After all, it looks like the flick might leave theaters … in a flash.

No Hard Feelings, the highest-ranked newcomer this weekend, was feeling a bit left out. The raunchy comedy starring Jennifer Lawrence earned just $15.1 million and finished fourth—a result that might have Sony Pictures’ accountants cringing. (Seems only fitting, since that’s what many a movie-goer was doing as well.)

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts closed out the top five with $11.6 million, pushing its total tally to $122.9 million. Meanwhile, Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City, in its first weekend of wide release, finished sixth with about $9 million.